500 Years of Male Self Portraits in Western Art

              

An interesting morph vid by Philip Scott Johnson.

Artists in order of appearance:

0:08 - Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 
0:15 - Francisco Goya 1746-1828 
0:22 - Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 
0:29 - Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 
0:35 - Rembrandt 1606-1669 
0:42 - Andy Warhol 1928-1987 
0:48 - William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905 
0:55 - Henri Matisse 1869-1954 
1:02 - Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863 
1:09 - Jean-François Millet 1814-1875 
1:15 - Jan van Eyck 1395-1441 
1:22 - Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640 
1:28 - James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903
1:35 - John Singer Sargent 1856-1925 
1:42 - Kazimir Malevich 1878-1935 
1:49 - Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665 
1:55 - Paul Cézanne 1839-1906 
2:02 - Paul Gauguin 1848-1903 
2:08 - Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890 
2:15 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882
2:22 - Diego Velázquez 1599-1660 
2:28 - Nicholas Hilliard 1547-1619 
2:35 - Anthony van Dyck 1599-1641 
2:41 - Titian 1485-1576 
2:48 - Paolo Veronese 1528-1588
2:55 - Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472-1553 
3:01 - Édouard Manet 1832-1883 
3:08 - Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 

Music: Bach's Bouree 1 and 2 from Suite for Solo Cello No. 3, BWV 1009 performed by Antonio Meneses. 

Here are two more that are not included in the youtube.  File these under the heading "Who is It?"

Try it without TinEye.  More fun to be had that way, imo:

-Maureen Lang  

  
  
 
 

Comments

[Rob Waddell]

Maureen...

Really guessing here. I would keep the money if it were 'Who wants to be a millionaire'..

Durer, Lautrec, Rembrant
(but I didn't cheat...I'm only about 80% on the Durer the rest much less)

robman

[Maureen Lang]

Good guess on the 1st one, Rob- a very young Albrecht Durer. The self portrait to its right is identified in the notes accompanying the youtube, as are all the morphing portraits.

Any guesses on the larger "Who is It?" self portraits at the bottom (they are not in the morphing vid)?

[Dave W.]

Maureen, your clue means the second gentleman must be Paul Cezanne. Regarding the dark haired gent sporting a look of angst and the drawn profile I have no ideas.

[Maureen Lang]

Cezanne it is, Dave. Think I actually prefer his self portrait in a peaked white hat:

http://www.paul-cezanne.org/Self-Portrait-In-A-White-Cap.html

[Anna W.]

And to think I was an art major! Your two mystery men have me stumped but I'll take a guess on the charcoal drawing being Thomas Hart Benton?

Anna

[Maureen Lang]

Anna,

Thanks for commenting. A good guess, but it's not Thomas Hart Benton.

Clue:
The charcoal is of an American who painted in the same time period as Benton but born several years before his date of birth.

[Anna W.]

I've found him! Edward Hopper. I should have known after going to the Whitney for that Hopper retrospective with you and Natalie and listening to you wax rhapsodic. Is the other portrait also a favorite painter of yours Maureen?

Anna

[Maureen Lang]

Anna,

Every since I sat staring at his work in the Uffizi many years ago, the dark haired painter has been a personal favorite of mine.

[rjj]

Is the dark haired youth Florentine?

I would have guessed he was one of the 16th C. Venetians.

How far off am I?

[rjj]

Giorgione!

[Maureen Lang]

rjj,

You would have guessed right on his being Venetian- it is indeed Giorgione. I find the detail in his paintings fascinating, particularly facial expressions, hand gestures, postures.

[rjj]

the portrait doesn't have the same "feel" as the paintings.

Is there another hand at work there do you think?

My "blink" (no thought) reaction was Titian?

When PL posted the Hals a few months ago, my blink, based on the face, was Hals, but then the exterior setting and classical/Arcadia motif is not your usual Hals, so I thought Rubens. Wrong. Am interested in how reliable the blink reaction is.

Thanks for this!!! I love the What's This? feature.

BTW, that lovely young man is Edward Hopper? Hard to believe. I much prefer to think of him as having been born middle-aged and grumpy ~~~ churlish.

[Maureen Lang]

Giorgione's career was cut short- he died young, possibly a victim of the plague. IMO the self portrait was probably finished by another. Titian or one of his school is a safe bet. According to some sources the portrait was originally part of a larger work- David holding the head of Goliath.

Edward Hopper had a great profile, didn't he? Full face self portraits of him seem to reveal that churlish side of his persona a bit more.

[Ann Glover]

What, no dillydallying with Dali? St. Petersburg beckons. Seriously, I'm still haunted by his self portraits there, time for a revisit. MAG